Lemonade Mouth

Part two

By Ella Lavender

ANOTHER RANT

YOU WERE WARNED

(^^)

So someone has finally offered something in defense of Starlie:

They're best friends

They're in the same group

They have matching personalities or personalities that complement

Okay, I'll break the first one to you:

They aren't. Period.

In no point in the movie (though I'm not entirely sure about the book) did Stella or Charlie communicate anymore than the rest of the band did, nor did they seem to show any personal preference to the other…if you count lying down a few times and posing beside each other on the CD then I should hit you. But that would be wrong. I'm not allowed to hit people anymore.

Besides, if anyone in the group could be considered best friends it would be Wen and Olivia and even Wen and Stella; at one point I preferred Wen and Stella together but that passed when I saw the looks Wen and Olivia were having…dreamy sigh.

Now for number two:

Some people admitted to pairing Charlie and Stella up because it just seemed fair that they should.

Olivia and Wen were 'sort of kind of maybe' together while Mo was with Scott. Why shouldn't people pair off the last remaining people in the band?

This is just an opinion, but I don't think it's fair on Stella.

How would anyone feel being someone else's second option because they couldn't get their first choice? Yes, maybe Charlie accepted Mo and Scott together, but you can't tell me that you can easily redirect your feelings to one person after another has rejected you. I don't believe in rebounds. And that's how I feel about that excuse.

Yes I admit that it would be easier to fall for someone in the same group as you because it's easy unlike Stella and Ray who are on opposing groups and on different sides of the social spectrum. But that's the challenge in being a writer, you get to be creative.

The third, I can credit. It has merit.

Yes they would complement each other's personalities, with Charlie being laid-back and Stella being a stand-up-and-fight kind of girl. That's one I can credit. I have nothing to say that would change that.

But I still do have an issue with Charlie picking Stella because he couldn't get Mo.

Of course I'd never think so badly of our favorite drummer, but wasn't that what he did with Victoria? Okay, that's one for speculation, we don't exactly know how Victoria and Charlie got together but that was what I got when I saw them together. They make a cute couple, so no one should really argue I mean…isn't that the excuse the Starlies use?

I know there is lack of evidence in the two ever getting together, but some like the pairing because the stories people write of them as a pairing are good.

NEWSFLASH PEOPLE!

Authors wrote those stories. It's a talent. It's a gift. As a writer you can manipulate emotions and give birth to different ways of thinking. They're good at convincing you to like a pairing or believe something as crazy as Male-Pregnancy stories (if you don't know what that is, I'm not willing to explain it…that's what Google is for), it's part of their ability as a writer to make you believe exactly what they want you to.

I should know after all. Getting comments like: "That story made me cry" or "That part made me laugh so hard!" or even "I could see them saying that", prove what a writer is capable of.

Someone also asked me to just take a shot and like Starlie.

It isn't happening.

I'm a one-pairing type of person (with the exception of Harmony and Dramione in Harry Potter), I don't know what they call it, but that's me. I don't write for pairings I do not support or ship. It isn't me.

I am pure Rayella.

If you have the nerve to shove Starlie stories down my throat (seriously, stuffing my PM box with 'amazing Starlie stories that will get you hooked' does not impress me) at least have the nerve to try Rayella too. I'm sure those Starlie stories are good, but I'll credit the writer not the pairing for that.

I swear, if one more person PMs me or leaves me rude reviews on my Rayella stories about how Rayella sucks and I'm wasting my talent writing for such a lame pairing, I will come after you with a wooden spoon and gut you like a fish!

As for simply writing Starlie to please the people who've sent me requests to do so, I have one thing to say: I don't wake up in the morning to please anyone. Don't expect to be an exception.

Then some of you ask: Was I trying to convert Starlies into Rayellas?

No I was not. If I was, I'd have categorized this rant as a Stella story so I could get all opinions on Stella based pairings (StellaMo, StellaScott, StellaWen, StellaLyle, StellaOlivia and so on) but I didn't because this rant was in support of Rayella.

This rant was to get all those Starlie shippers to leave me alone about writing their pairing because it annoys me to open my inbox and find a dozen Starlie stories 'I should read because they're better than Rayella". So for the final time: I won't. So please don't waste my time and yours.

I respect all shipping.

But that doesn't mean I have to read or write any of it.

FINIS RANT

As for someone's comment about Ray's not-so-noble intention of revealing Scott to Mo, I was aware of that actually. His reason for showing Scott as a cheating scumbag wasn't for the best of intentions but he did it nonetheless, his reason was questionable but I would've preferred knowing about something like that rather than being ignorant about it.

Like I said, Ray is a jerk but sometimes his jerk-tendencies can have good outcomes.

Though quite honestly, I would've preferred it if Mo and Scott never got back together, but again, that's just an opinion.